Overview¶
Introduction¶
Photutils contains functions for:
performing aperture photometry
performing PSF-fitting photometry
detecting and extracting point-like sources (e.g., stars) in astronomical images
detecting and extracting extended sources using image segmentation in astronomical images
centroiding sources
estimating the background and background RMS in astronomical images
building an effective Point Spread Function (ePSF)
matching PSF kernels
estimating morphological parameters of detected sources
The code and issue tracker are available at the following links:
Issue Tracker: https://github.com/astropy/photutils/issues
Contributors¶
For the complete list of contributors please see the Photutils contributors page on Github.